Hay-carrier



(No Model.)

B. WOODWARD.

HAY CARRIER.

Patented June 24, 1884 WITNESSES INVENTOR:

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HAY-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0.301,036, dated June 24,1884.

Application filed April 29, 1984. (N model.)

To all Lu/0077?, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN \VOODWARD, of Stryker, in the county ofWilliams and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in HayOarriers, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of one of my improved carriers, part beingbroken away, and showing the operating parts in position to receive thebail of the fork-carrying pulley. Fig. 2 is the same view as Fig. l, butshow ing the operating parts in position to support thefork-carryinglpulley and its attachments. Fig. 3 is asectional endelevation of the same, taken through the broken line 00 m, Fig. 2. Fig.4.- is a sectional plan view of the same, taken through the line 1 y,Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an elevation of the double catch, the track beingshown in section through the line z z, Fig. 2.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the operation oftransferring hay from the wagon to the hay-mow, and secure certainty inthe action of the operating mechanism of hay-carriers.

The invention consists in the combination, with the two plates formingthe frame of the carrier, of two hook-plates adapted to be tripped bythe hail of the fork-pulley and to engage with each other and the catch.The first hook-plate is made with two hook-arms, to adapt it to engagewith the second hookplate to support the loaded fork and hold the secondhook-plate in gear with its catch. The second hook-plate is made withtwo hookarms and a curved trip-arm, having a shoulder at its inner end,to adapt the said plate to engage with and be tripped by the firsthookplate and to engage with the catch, as will be hereinafter fullydescribed.

A. represents the track, which is designed to be supported from theframe-tin1bers of a barn by angle-bolts or other suitable means.

The carrier-frame is formed of two plates or frames, 13, which areconnected by bolts, and the upper parts of which are at such a distanceapart as to receive between them the plates are pivoted rollers track A.To the upper corners of each of the O, to roll along the upper side ofthe track A. To the rear lower corners of the plates B is attached theend of the traction-rope I), which passes over a pulley, E, pivoted toand between thelower forward corners of the said plates B. From thepulley E the rope D is led over guidepulleys in the ordinary manner tothe place where the horse is to be attached. Upon the rope D, betweenits stationary rear end and the pulley E, is placed a pulley, F, withthe block G- of which is connected the hayefork in the ordinary manner.

The guidepulleys for the rope D and the hay-fork are not shown in thedrawings.

To the block G of the pulley F are rigidly attached the ends of the bailH, which projects upward to trip the operating parts of the carrier,hereinafter described.

To and between the forward lower parts of the plates 13, a little in therear of the pulley E, is pivoted a two-armed plate, I, the arms of whichproject about at right angles with each other. The outer end of theupper arm of the plate I is rounded, and has a hook, 1, formed upon itsouter side edge. The lower arm of the two-armed plate I has a hook, 2,formed upon the outer end of its outer side edge. I

To and between the rear lower parts of the plates 13, and at a littlehigher level than the pivot of the plate I, is pivoted a three-armedplate, J, upon the outer end of the outer side edge of the lower arm ofwhich is formed a hook, 3.

Upon the outer end of the outer side edge of the outer arm of thethreearmed plate J is formed a hook, 4.. The third arm of thethree-armed plate J is conveXed upon its outer side and concaved uponits inner side, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and has ashoulder, 5, uponthe outer part of its inner end.

To the lower side of the center of the track A is attached a catch, K,which is made double to adapt it to be used without change when thecarrier is upon either arm of the said track. The catch K is made with adovetailed recess in the center of its lower side, with the lower sidesof its end parts slightly concaved, and with square outer ends. Thecatch K has upward projecting perforatedlugs, 6, upon the opposite sidesof its center to overlap the sides of the .track A, and receive the boltby which the said catch is secured to the said track, as shown. in Fig.5. With this construction, when the carrier is over the haywagon and thehook-plates I J are in the position shown in Fig. 1, when the pulley F,earrying the loaded fork, rises to the carrier, the bail I-I strikes theupper arm of the hook-plate I and raises it, and also raises the innerarm of the hook-plate J, withdrawing the hook 4 from the catch K andallowing the carrier to be drawn forward by the traction-rope D, thehook-plates I J being in the position shown in Fig. 2. When the carrieris drawn back for another load and reaches the catch K, the endshoulder, 5, of the hook-plate J strikes the end of the said catch K,which turns the said hookplate and withdraws the hook 3, from the hook 2of the hook-plate I, releasing the bail H and allowing the unloaded forkto descend for another load. This movement raises the hook 4 intocontact with the catch K and lowers the hook 1 into contact with thehook 3, so that the weight of the arm of the plate I will hold the hook4 of the plate J in contact with the catch K, and thus prevent thecarrier from being moved out of place accidentally.

Having thus described 'my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a hay-carrier, the combination of the pivoted plate I, formed withthe hooks 1 2 at its opposite ends, with the pivoted plate J, formedwith a curved trip-arm having shoulder 5 and hook-arm 4 on its upperend, and with the depending arni having ahook, 3, for engaging the hooks1 2 of plate I, all arranged substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

2. The combination, with the frame-plates B, slotted on their loweredges, as shown, and the block and bail H, of the pivoted plate I,having hooks 1 2, and the plate 'J; pivoted above and on the oppositeside of the slot 'from the plate I, and formed with a trip-armprojecting across the slots in the path of the bail H, shoulder 5,hook-arm 4, projecting out of the frame-plates, as shown, and thedepending hook-arm 3, all constructed and arranged substantially as setforth.

3. The catch K,,formed with a dovetailed recess in the center of itslower side, and with the lower sides of its end parts coneaved, asshown, and the upward-projecting perforated lugs 6 on its opposite sidesto overlap the sides of the track, substantially as set forth.

EDWIN WVOODWARD.

Witnesses:

JAMEs WV. VVOODWARD, W. B. KITZMILLER.

